Sentence examples for galvanize popular from inspiring English sources
In 1966 the party's leaders, at Mao's instigation, launched the Cultural Revolution, designed again to quash emerging "bourgeois" elements elites and bureaucrats—and to harness anti-intellectualism to galvanize popular will.
These bold steps would galvanize popular support among Israelis and Palestinians for a renewed peace process and dramatically demonstrate in the region and at home that he remains personally committed to this issue.
Sihamoni — a former ballet dancer of whom Sihanouk once blogged that he "has neither spouse, nor mistress nor 'adventure' with any lady or damsel whatsoever" — has been tirelessly involved in charity work, but he hasn't managed to galvanize popular support like his father.
Kennedy's impulsive decision to leave his Chicago hotel room and talk to demonstrators who are massing in Grant Park helps galvanize popular support, much as his handling of his near-death experience at the hands of Sirhan Sirhan (like President Ronald Reagan's chipper handling of the attempt on his life in 1981) wins him new sympathy and admiration.
Obama, after all, had also promised to galvanize popular support for his agenda.
Both leaders have shown an uncanny ability to galvanize popular support, although Modi recently suffered some setbacks (#BiharElections).
In 1776 Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" galvanized popular opinion around the idea that American independence was not impossible but inevitable.
Perhaps no issue has symbolized their disappointment or galvanized popular anger as much as the sluggish — some say empty — effort to punish those who attacked the protesters.
The demonization that has dominated the national conversation on the political left has succeeded in galvanizing popular movements.
The mercenary myth was successful in galvanizing popular support for the rebels because it contained a tiny of kernel of truth.
The triggering event is often a sudden crisis that galvanizes popular opinion and becomes the immediate occasion for military intervention but subsequently is exposed as a misguided perception or outright fabrication.
